Chapter 170: The Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell

Orthodox thirteen years, at the end of the first month.

In the face of the thief army of Ye Zongliu's department who suddenly rushed out of Xianxia Ridge, the remaining official troops of the state capital began to assemble rapidly, and assembled in Longquan City, the capital of the state, just blocking the army of Ye Zongliu's department that passed by, and the two sides immediately started fighting.

At this time, the official army of Zhejiang has been defeated in the hands of Ye Zongliu, if the thief army is allowed to rush out and run rampant everywhere, then the generals of the entire Zhejiang will wait to be imprisoned collectively!

Therefore, although there were only more than 4,000 officers and troops in Longquan City, they were extremely tenacious, and they insisted that Ye Zongliu's 80,000 thief army and more than 100,000 homeless people were delayed in the city for half a month, unable to advance half a step!

At the same time, the official army of the other state capitals in Zhejiang is also rushing to help, and the nearest official army will arrive in only three days, and the thief army of Ye Zongliu's department is about to fall into the encirclement of all kinds of officials and troops, not to mention that the imperial court is still mobilizing a large army, preparing to completely exterminate the thief army of Ye Zongliu's department.

In the face of such a dangerous situation, Ye Zongliu's thief army had already lost nearly 10,000 horses under Longquan City, but it still did not attack the city, so Ye Zongliu was also worried in his heart.

As a last resort, Ye Zongliu could only meditate and see if there was any way to reverse the current crisis.

At this time, Chen Jian Hu Jin said: "King, since all the officials and soldiers are coming one after another, then we can be a bait to lure the officials and soldiers from all walks of life together and annihilate them!" After that, the defenders of Longquan City will be torn apart and crushed without a fight! ”

Ye Zongliu couldn't help but nod when he heard this, and then laughed and said, "Okay! In that case, then we will withdraw our troops today, and this Longquan City will not be fought! ”

Wang Neng, Zheng Xiangsi, Canghuotou, Chen Gongshan, Chen Jianhu, Ye Xiba and other thief leaders couldn't understand when they heard this, but in the face of Ye Zongliu's order, everyone didn't dare to ask more, so they could only disperse one after another and lead the army to retreat.

Ye Zongliu retreated, and directly withdrew to the area of Xianxialing, leading the army and the displaced people, totaling nearly 200,000 people, to plunge directly into the mountains, and then several official troops and 40,000 horses who chased after him also rushed into Xianxialing.

Two days later, 40,000 officers and troops pursued all the way, winning more than a dozen battles of all sizes, killing thousands of Ye Zongliu's thief army, and their morale was greatly boosted for a while, and they plunged into the depths of Xianxia Ridge.

On this day, 40,000 officers and troops pursued to the site of the Shaotingkeng silver mine, where the silver mine had been burned down when Ye Zongliu led the crowd to set off, and only a scorched earth remained.

At this time, more than 40,000 officers and soldiers lost the traces of the thief army for a while, so they could only rest here for a while, wait until the trace of the thief army was found, and then continue the pursuit.

That night, the official army suddenly sent back the news that traces of the thief army were found on a mountainside more than ten miles east of Shaotingkeng.

As a result, more than 40,000 officers and soldiers rushed over overnight and encountered Ye Zongliu's thief army on an unnamed mountain, and the two sides immediately started a fierce battle.

In the dark night, more than 40,000 officers and troops were divided into three teams and attacked from three sides of the nameless mountain at the same time, and the thief army stationed on the mountain gradually became unable to resist and began to break up towards the peak.

The morale of the officers and soldiers from all walks of life was greatly boosted, and they pursued up the mountain one after another, and the nameless mountain shrouded in night shook the sky, wailed continuously, and shook the four fields!

Seeing that Ye Zongliu's thief army retreated step by step, and tens of thousands of officers and soldiers covered up and killed with the situation, all the generals were overjoyed, and they could be regarded as having a bad breath in their hearts: no matter how fierce the bandits are, they will not be the opponents of the officials and soldiers in the end!

At this moment, the nameless mountain suddenly burst into flames, and then there were fires one after another everywhere on the mountain, and in the cold winter, the mountain wind was raging, the trees were dry, and the fires everywhere turned into fire dragons, and they were rampant on the nameless mountain, and the thieves and the officers and soldiers were burned into charcoal together!

"Fuck! What's going on! ”

"Pass the order! Withdraw the whole army, hurry up! ”

"Can't be withdrawn! Withdraw now, but the previous efforts will be wasted, and the thief army must be annihilated at all costs! ”

"My soldiers are trapped by the fire, what else can I do to annihilate the thief army? Take it down for me! ”

Just when several commanders and commanders of the army were arguing loudly, the officers and troops on the nameless mountain had already begun to retreat, and tens of thousands of officers and soldiers rushed down the mountain one after another, until they retreated to the foot of the mountain to see how to stabilize their positions.

At the same time, on the nameless mountain, Ye Zongliu was also shocked when he looked at the fire all over the mountain, he originally just wanted to use fire to attack the retired officers and troops and mess with their positions, and then command tens of thousands of troops to rush down the mountain directly and eat these tens of thousands of officers and troops in one fell swoop.

But it backfired, the dry and flammable nameless mountain in winter gave Ye Zongliu a blow to the head, and the fire attack prepared in advance turned into a mountain fire in a blink of an eye, and then it began to burn indiscriminately regardless of the enemy and me, not only burned thousands of officers and soldiers, let the official army brigade completely retreat, but also killed one or twenty thousand thieves on the spot, and the rest of the thief soldiers and horses were also scattered!

No matter how much the thief army can fight, it is not an official army after all.

In the face of the raging wildfires, even the well-trained officers and soldiers with strict military law retreated on the spot, let alone a rabble like the thief army?

At this time, Wang Neng pulled the hideous Ye Zongliu and said loudly: "The king hurry up!" This place is not to stay for long! ”

"I'm not leaving!"

Ye Zongliu pointed to Wang Neng, Zheng Xiangsi, Canghuotou, Chen Gongshan, Chen Jianhu, and Ye Xiba, and said loudly: "You immediately go and reorganize the people and horses, and kill the mountain with me, as long as the tens of thousands of officers and soldiers under the mountain are destroyed, we will win this battle, and the whole Zhejiang will be left to us!" ”

When everyone heard this, their faces were embarrassed, and they stood indifferent, Ye Zongliu shouted angrily when he saw this: "What? Don't you all listen to orders? ”

Wang Neng said anxiously: "King, we have lost this battle, and we can't fight anymore!" ”

Next to him, Ye Xiba also pointed to the bottom of the mountain and said loudly: "Look, king, the officers and troops under the mountain have reorganized their formations and started to block various mountain roads, if we don't leave, it will be too late!" ”

Hearing this, Ye Zongliu's face also changed greatly, and after being entangled for a while, he gritted his teeth and said, "If the order goes down, all the horses will immediately retreat to the back mountain!" ”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this, and then they prepared to retreat with their whole army.

At this moment, Ye Zongliu suddenly remembered something, and said loudly: "Abandon all the homeless people, miners, and craftsmen who accompanied him, let these people die here, and cover for our brothers!" ”

Before everyone could understand, Wang Neng said, "The king is so calculating! This trick of the golden cicada shelling will definitely make the officials and troops under the mountain trick! ”

At this moment, the leaders of the thieves understood, and immediately dispersed in a hurry and reorganized the people.

It didn't take long for Ye Zongliu to lead the remaining more than 30,000 people and horses to withdraw from the back mountain, together with Wang Neng, Zheng Xiangsi, Canghuotou, Chen Gongshan, Chen Jianhu, and Ye Xi.

These tens of thousands of thieves were either burned to death by the fire, or died under the random knives of the officials and soldiers, and then they saw that the situation was not right, and they directly smeared oil on the soles of their feet and slipped away, and they were never seen again.

As for the more than 100,000 displaced people, miners, and craftsmen were extremely miserable, they were first slaughtered by the warring officials and thieves on the nameless mountain, and then they were surrounded by the skyrocketing fire, and they were killed and injured for a while, and some luck escaped down the mountain, and in addition to the displaced people who were rescued by the officials and soldiers, tens of thousands of homeless people, miners, and craftsmen died on this nameless mountain!

Early the next morning, as soon as the fire that soared into the sky last night was extinguished, more than 30,000 officers and soldiers under the mountain could not wait to kill the nameless mountain.

However, when the more than 30,000 officers and soldiers rushed up the mountain extremely smoothly, they found that there was no longer a living person on the entire mountain, and there were pitch-black corpses everywhere, and there were at least 100,000 in a rough count!

After that, the official army began to search the mountains, preparing to continue to kill the thieves scattered in the mountains.

Four days later, all the scattered thief troops near the nameless mountain were wiped out, and the officers and soldiers killed more than 10,000 thieves in total!

At this time, the generals from all walks of life were very happy, and they all agreed that the thief army of Ye Zongliu's troops had been completely wiped out in this nameless mountain!

Therefore, under the careful deliberation and coordination of the generals from all walks of life, the generals reported to the military department, saying: The thief leader Kou Ye Zong stayed in the unnamed mountain of Xianxialing and was defeated and surrounded, and because he was afraid of the punishment of the imperial court, he also led the crowd to self-immolate and died!